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SUSE Manager, a year later retrospective

It has been more than a year. Around March 2011 we shipped SUSE Manager 1.2 and enhanced the management story for our customers. Since then we have been very busy! Time to look back and see what we...

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SUSE Manager, a year later retrospective II (Backstage)

I posted a retrospective of what we did for our customers in SUSE Manager during the last year. This is a continuation of that post, focusing on what is going behind the scenes. Testing At SUSE we love...

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Be aware of the Garbage Collector when accessing C/C++ from Ruby

When you wrap C/C++ code into a language like Ruby which has a garbage collector, you have to be very careful because the GC knows about the Ruby objects referencing to each other, but not about the...

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A better Java: Scala or Xtend?

I have been playing with two languages recently: Scala and Xtend. Xtend and Scala have some similarities, but don’t let this make you think they are that similar. Both are JVM based languages offering...

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Scala & Vaadin 7 & gradle

Vaadin 7 is out since some time. I want it to give it a try together with Scala and my favorite build system for Java: gradle. So, based on this skeleton, I updated it to work with Vaadin 7. Mind that...

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Modernizing Spacewalk’s user interface

Spacewalk is SUSE Manager upstream project. We base our product on Spacewalk’s codebase and contribute features and fixes back. There are lot of advantages of working in a mature codebase. At the same...

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2013 Personal Learning Retrospective (Software)

At work, It was an intense and exciting year: I got the chance to focus more in one product. Grew and focused on building the “new” team. Lot of contributions from the team to upstream. And the...

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Trying Rust (language) on openSUSE

I am always playing with new languages. I love learning the thinking and philosophy behind them. Usually I throw them away after one evening (mostly mee-too’s), but there are some that are very...

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SUSE Manager 2.1

Back in March, Christian Stankowic analysed Spacewalk 2.1 and its new user interface look and feel. He asked himself how SUSE Manager would look like: I really appreciate this update! The new interface...

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Security vulnerability regressions and continuous integration

When we released SUSE Manager 1.2 back in 2011, one of the first internal components we open-sourced was our internal testsuite and I have written a bit about it before. Our process was from the...

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